Thursday, April 23, 2015

*****There has been a spike in pageviews, 459, last month!Nine dodgy traffic sources are active, with Russian and Ukrainian origins.Google Blogger Help has been notified. They were able to remove vampirestats some time ago.One feels maybe this blog should be ended when unsavory issues enter secretly.We shall see how it goes......********************************************15/5/2015Here is reply from Google:-Ignore it. Please read the FAQ - and don't click on any dodgy links in the Stats logs!

There are no actual links to your blog, from the websites referenced in referer spam - nor is your blog content being read, from anybody's computer. Neither your blog's page rank nor reputation is affected, one way or the other, by referer spam. Nobody but you knows about the non existent links to your blog.

Work on your blog, and get more real traffic.

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[FAQ] What Are The Bogus, High Activity Links In My Stats Logs?-----------------------------------------------------------------****4/6/2015 INTERESTING! ALL REFERRER SPAM IS GONE THIS WEEK! It was pretty bad 2 weeks ago.************************************************************************************************************************** Saturday 4 July. The list of referral sites shows no spam, but the big spike in monthly numbers is still big = 426. Page views is more like 64 from ten referring links..........So the grand total of sixteen thousand one hundred and 53 pageviews of my blog here IS UNTRUE. What a pity......one would wish that many people might be interested in the Fibonacci Series. ( my exclamation mark and my number one key does not work) AND SPAM EMAILS as of July this year HAVE GONE TO MY YAHOO EMAIL FROM a GMAIL ACCOUNT. THIS MEANS SOMETHING IS WRONG. HIJACKED? I HAVE CONTACTED GOOGLE PRODUCT FORUMS..... Actually (15/7/2014) there is someone using my yahoo userid and gmail ie vanasama@gmail AND IT IS NOT ME.Some nasty spam. Not nice to have unpleasant stuff linking to me.*****************************************************************************************************

Wednesday, April 15, 2015

More work on making seashell models and I am trying to make it as simple as possible.
So the algorithm ismake 4 stitches into 5, ie crochet or knit once in 3 stitches, then twice in 4th stitch.
Bumps here are made of 3 chains. Indent is different. Start with 5. Numbers are different. 5 rows of 75.
No need to fine tune the numbers to reach exact Fibonacci or Fibonacci and a half Numbers (see post of 9/13/15) for each row. It comes close to that kind of array, tho personally I get more satisfaction being exact. A Table for the 4 to 5 series is on its way....

This one is the latest. It is not yet sewn up. Best not to rush it.
Will post as soon as it is made up.
It promises to look OK.**Please click on image to enlarge it.
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Insert 15/5/2015

Well, this is not the perfect pattern. The inside thin area is too big. I now think it might need only a very small thin area at the top to allow configuration of tight small spiral.

So now it is back to square one with amended Pattern. One go has already been unravelled because it is not right! One day it will be done properly...

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15/4/2015 continued...

Am staying in Town to continue to hear the Nature Spirits TeleSummit online ( I have no electricity or Internet at home in my caravan). Summit is as described in last post.
Good stuff. Michael Roads has lots of stories. eg farmer hated foxes because they kill chickens. Michael asked "What came first- your hatred or the dead chooks?" Of course it was - the hatred. In the wild the partridges fly away when attacked and only one bird gets killed. Chooks are in a cage- they can't fly away, so the fox thinks it hasn't killed one yet....so he/she keeps on killing. When the farmer stopped hating Fox, the fox stopped killing chooks.....

Discord brings its own results, Intention is Everything.
I am coming to understand a little bit. Create Change by loving ourselves.
The other bit I love is _ Michael says that even if a Forest is devastated, it still exists Metaphysically. You can see it metaphysically. He can and does. The Forest or Ecosystem is Still There, in Spirit!

MInd blowing! We are each of us Magnificent, Multidimensional, Metaphysical, Immortal Beings of Love and Light. We have forgotten a lot. Chances are- more of us might Remember.

If one person can do it then it follows that all of us can potentially do the same.
The great Spiritual Teachings tell us that Spirit governs Matter.
Sukyo Mahikari teaches "Spirit first, mind follows, body belongs." ______________________________________________
Here is a previous similar model - bumps are made of 5 chains. Only one row of 78, red row is 63. start with 8, different at top, different indents.
Sewn up, it is still a bit mishappen. So I had to make another (ie. above).
Here follows the made up model. A new way to sew it up- use less padding , and start to pad just at the top . I have tended to be clumsy and overstuff the work! Light touch.... cotton balls can be unrolled for padding.

There is a lot of work in drawing up diagrams. Some have been done but often I have to redo them because of mistakes. Writing up a crochet or knitting Pattern must be exactly Right before it is published. I am 69 and can forget stuff eg how many stitches are in the indents.
So I have to make Another one to get it right!
Each one can take more than one day to make. Thus we are still waiting for a Correct Pattern.
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How do you like this beauty of a Real Seashell?
The "bumps" are most elaborate.
About 25 bumps- 5 or 6 big ones, about 8 medium, about 13 smaller.

One is Continuously trying to Improve. Still guessing what to do.....
I need to micro measure real seashells, eg the pointy Auger Shell etc..--------------------------------------------15/5/2015!Please click on image to enlarge it.

A challenge for the future!***************************
12/16/2015 The challenge has manifested. This model was made over 3 days while I was listening to the ABC Radio Classic 100 Swoon Program June 5,6,7,8. and is being documented in Making a Pink Seashell Part 3. **
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Thursday, April 2, 2015

Today, and for two weeks since 1st April --- a TeleSummit on Nature Spirits...
audio for 48 hours after the Summit online. And buy DVDs etc.

Kim Wilborn is host. http://guardianspiritsofnature.com

Speakers are:-David Furlong. He said Gaia has a male counterpart called Geb ( old Egyptian name for Earth)!Pam Montgomery. Hear the sound of a silver Begonia singing! 3 minutes. Thanks to a device which hooks the plant up with electrodes; made in Damanhur in Italy.Elyse Pomeranz. www.TheTreeConversations.comTanis HalliwellDr Steven Farmer www.EarthMagic.netJohn Springer ask for rainLisa MichaelsGail-Elizabeth EnglandDiana HendersonLaura Walthers on fairies - she looks like one.Camilla Blossom on.....Mermaids.Alphedia on Celtic Fairies.Dr Jim Conroy and Basia AlexanderWilliam BloomPavithra NovakScott Kloos plant teachers and forest medicineSusan RavenNaisha AhsFaian on elementals and crystalsFaye GreeningRaven Many Voices ...on Dragons.Michael Roads writer from Australia****David Spangler of Findhorn.

Something new to think about in these troubled times. All is not gloom.
Humans have been in amnesia, Nature spirits have been in hiding. It is the plants and trees who have been holding the spiritual Fort. All is now coming Together, and we all have our part in it as Sacred Humans on a Sacred Path.
Under the seas there are coral gardens as we can see in the videos embedded in this blog. Mermaids are a favorite of mine in this Seashell Land (see past posts 6/13/2012, 8/1/2012 and 1/31/2013.

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12/16/2015
Guess what I found in a second hand shop just after the Nature Spirits' TeleSummit-------

So I can use 5 in row 1, then say 8, then 10, 13, 17, 21, 27, 34, 44, 55, 72 ( actually I use 70 - it is a bit easier to calculate...,), 89 and so on.
I posted how to do this in the afore mentioned post..... knit 3 then 2x in 4th stitch is algorithm, with minor adjustments at the end to achieve the exact Fibonacci number.
but I will rewrite it up presently, with more details.

The thin inside ares should be adjusted a bit further in, it is all to make the model less bulky.

**You could easily make it all in one colour, with green in row with 70 stitches, even with knob or spikes on the 70 row.

You could transcribe it all to crochet; start from the bottom at 5.
You could change it to just increase 4 to 5 or decrease 5 to 4 without fiddling with adjustments at the end of row to make a serious Fibonacci number. Vague might be ok.

And make it with more stitches ie up to 144 or 233.....

*** It is all in the sewing up along the spiral "suture".
I crocheted a row on final inside edge with the fine cotton. This makes it easier to then sew final edge on to the row under 70 using a skewer to wind the work into a spiral beginning at the top, as described in past posts eg 9/12/2014 and associated posts.

Cotton balls from the chemist can be each unrolled to make a flat piece, so layers can be inserted as one sews up the piece, to pad it. Other fibres can be used if you have anything suitable.

We will find out how to make a proper tall spired seashell eventually!.

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16/6/2015 more

Knit. Begin with cast on 55, yellow is 72, increase to 89. then gradually decrease.
ie. decreasing every 5th stitch= 55 - 68 - 85 - 68 - 55 - 44 - 34 - 28 - 21...etc
Can you figure out the rows from this image? Are they consecutive or alternate?
I shall have to write out the instructions (if I can remember them)......
Or make a brand new one, with smaller thin area, and write it up properly.

Sewing up this one felt odd because the central column bit felt wobbly- too much too thin.
The finished model looks ok- best pointy tip so far.

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PS 1/8/2017

Rereading this, it is maybe a mistake to increase every 5th stitch- rather every 4th stitch. But I must check the maths properly and report later........

About Me

Born in Germany January 1946 and migrated to Australia in 1949.
B.Sc from UNSW 1970.
Name is Tiiu Vanamois.
Email is tmvanam@gmail.com .
Blogs are www.awhatifworld.blogspot.com
and www.acolourfulpost.blogspot.com
and www.biomathcraft.blogspot.com.
-------The first is to do with my Land and ecology of the World.----The second is about Art and Health.----The third is mainly a study of Mathematical Series, namely Fibonacci, Lucas, Bifurcating Series. Plus varius related themes--------- Of big interest is the making of models using crochet or knitting ------if anyone is interested in working with this, please do so ------------There are two asterisks **, after all posts in date index to do with crochet or knitting or making patterns for models-------------------- 4 asterisks** ** for Tables.